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PLANETS warns of travel insurance access “scandal” denying patients respite
PLANETS Cancer Charity has warned many patients are being wrongly denied valuable respite through holidays as they are unable to secure affordable travel insurance – or even any at all. Neil Pearce, co-founder of PLANETS, which helps patients with panc …
Lesley Waters Tasting Evening Raises over £4000 for PLANETS!
Our first event with our fabulous new Patron, Celebrity Chef Lesley Waters was a success, raising a fantastic £4250! Lesley entertained us all with a lively cookery demo and all our guests had the pleasure of trying the food she had shown them h …
Celebrity chef Lesley Waters named patron of PLANETS Cancer Charity
Celebrity chef Lesley Waters has been named patron of Hampshire-based PLANETS Cancer Charity – and will mark her new role with a tasting evening in aid of the charity next week (Thursday, 26 May). PLANETS helps patients with pancreatic, liver, colorect …
£2000 Donation in Memory of Shaun Merry
PLANETS very gratefully received a cheque for £2000 last week from Shaun Merry’s family. Shaun, a NET patient, sadly passed away in October 2018 aged 54 years. Initially treated by another hospital, Shaun’s Mum Veronica told us that they were very grat …
Pioneering ‘chemo bath’ treatment for liver cancer improves survival
A revolutionary treatment for liver cancer which works by isolating the organ from the rest of the body and ‘bathing’ it in chemotherapy is effective in almost 90 per cent of patients, greatly improving survival rates. The procedure, pioneered i …
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PLANETS Receive £10,000 Grant from The Hospital Saturday Fund
Thank you to John Greenwood, Trustee of the The Hospital Saturday Fund, for visiting us on Monday and bringing this incredible grant of £10,000 to support our IORT (Intra Operative Radiotherapy) machine. This will enable us to continue delivering this lifesaving treatment at University Hospital Southampton – the only centre in the UK currently offering this unique targeted form of …
